> Book one: the beginning > by minecraft > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- > chapter 1 > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Hello, my name is Minecraft, some ponies might think it's a strange name, but I don't mind. I have a red an green mane and tail, white fur, green aura and eyes. I'm an alicorn by the way and no, I'm not related to Celestia, Luna, Cadence or Twilight Sparkle, also both my parents are unicorns. I also have a twin sister, her name is Carol, she looks exactly like me except she has purple eyes and a purple aura, but we'll talk more about her la- what the!? CAROL! GET OFF ME! *Sigh* look, I know you don't like being an after thought, but may I continue, now where was I? ahh! yes . You're now probably wondering how could I possibly be an alicorn, well, i was born a unicorn, but Princess Celestia us both alicorns at a very young age, why? it starts with my mother, her name is Aura Sparks. Unlike most ponies, my mother was created by magic, the spell itself was cast by an old unicorn whose name was magical flash. He sadly died three months later, he was, after all, a very old stallion, mother was cared by the other workers in the lab, but she never thought of them as family. Oh! by the way, mother has a light crimson mane and tail, sky blue fur, dark green eyes and aura. One day, when mother was around eight, she was experimenting with magic when something happened. As far as I know there was a bright light and then something appeared, it was white and glowing. One of the workers came over and told her that she just created some sort of magical force and that she was now an inventor, mother liked the idea of being an inventor and said that she would create lots of spells in the future. This statement caused her to gain her cutie mark, two glass beakers, one with orange liquid, the other with green liquid. After that, she managed to put the force in a syringe and, not quite knowing what will happen, injected it into herself and it resulted in a power surge. Nearly destroying the lab, the workers managed to contain her temporally with their magic and put her in the "panic room", a room that disables all forms of magic and ending her power surge. Twenty years later, mother bumped into a stallion and after a short conversation discovered that his name was Spell Nexus, they became fast friends and stared dating, two years after that they were married. Then another year later me and Carol were born, we were five when it happened. It turned out that Spell Nexus was a teacher at Princess Celestia's school for gifted unicorns, one one day, Celestia tasked him with examining the remains of Nightmare Moon, but dark magic still clung to the remains. The dark magic suddenly leapt at him, though father fought long and hard, in the end the dark magic won, possessing him and giving him the "the blessing". Mother, Carol and I at the time was at the market, ten minutes after father was possessed,we came home from the market and noticed at once that something was wrong. The room was very dark and father had his back to us, when mother asked if something was wrong, said that everything was fine, because Equestria's true queen, Nightmare Moon, had shown him the truth. Mother knew at once that the dark magic of Nightmare Moon had possessed him, we tried to run, only to find that father had put a locking spell on the door that we couldn't undo, our magic was to weak. At that point, father opened his mouth and all this black smoke came out, grabbing our hoofs and pulling us towards father who grinning evilly, the dark magic tried to force it's way into our mouths, and succeeded with mother, mother knew that she didn't have the power to fight off the magic, so she did the next best thing, gathering all the magic she had, she tried a binding spell. Ever since her power surge when she was eight, mother's magic would often loose control or cause another power surge, because of all the magic bottled up inside her, so, from then on she only used her magic in emergency and this was an emergency. She watched the magical chains of the binding spell, the binding spell she cast bound the dark magic to herself and Spell Nexus, so it would not spread to other ponies, but because she was a bit out of practice when it came to magic, the binding spell was a very weak spell, meaning the dark magic could still spread. But before she gave her self up, she transferred the force she created all those years ago t us Only then did she let the magic possess her, at that moment I heard a frightened shriek beside me. I looked over at Carol, that horrible back magic that had taken away my mother and father was no longer trying to take her away as well, instead it was draining her magic. She screamed in pain, I sorry to say I could do nothing to help her, it tore me to see the magic and her youth ebbing out of her. By now I'd given up hope that help was going to arrive, but it did, in the form of... Princess Celestia Yup you heard correctly and Carol you might want to cover your ears because this next bit isn't exactly appropriate for your age group, no your not old enough, yes I know your seven but your still too young, are your ears covered? good, back to the story. Yes you heard correctly, just click on the link "chapter two" to read what happens next... Hm? what did you say Carol? Wait let get this straight, you want to have that triple-chocolate-strawberry-banana muffin topped with vanilla ice cream that Pinkie made? ummm... are you sure? I mean I'm not saying that Pinkie's muffins aren't yummy but... ugh fine, just one okay and don't have any thing el- oh! your still here? haven't you clicked on the link yet?